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Global Activism: Art and Conflict in the 21st Century
Describes and documents politically inspired art — global art practices that draw attention to grievances and demand the transformation of existing conditions through actions, demonstrations, and performances in public space. Includes essays by leading thinkers, images of art objects, illustrations, documents, and other material as well as case studies by artists and activists.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Nothing to Lose but Our Fear: Activism and Resistance in Dangerous Times
Delivers a counter blow to the rampant culture of fear fuelled by the likes of CNN, Fox and the Daily Mail. Exploring contemporary and historical manifestations of this controlling force, the conversations in this collection go beyond just scrutinizing what constitutes rational versus irrational fear, or identifying ways in which human fears are manipulated by political players. They reveal how fear antagonizes and changes our subjectivity and, crucially, how the political use of fear has been resisted in different times and places, by different people across the globe.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Uncommon Grounds: New Media and Critical Practices in the Middle East and North Africa
Examining the opportunities presented by the real-time generation of new, relatively unregulated content online, this publication evaluates the prominent role that new media has come to play in artistic practices – and social movements – in the Arab world today.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
We Roma - a Critical Reader in Contemporary Art
Inquires into the contemporary moment through the lens of Roma artistic and intellectual practices, gathering knowledge from the Roma way of life.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Performance in Place of War
The book looks at theatre and performances that often occur quite literally as bombs are falling, as well as during times of ceasefire and in the aftermath of hostilities. Includes interviews with artists, short play extracts, and photographs.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Assemblage: An Art Series on Identity, Memory, and Displacement
Assemblage reflects interdisciplinary aesthetic practices that call attention to displacement as a disruption in the continuity of place, relationships, identity, movement, memory, and time resulting in a collage of preserved artefacts and mediated possibilities.
In misc folder 7.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Calling Cards
Article on the eponymous exhibition which aims to raise awareness and purge the discrimination against Roma communities. In Hungarian and English.
In misc folder 7. Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Rooted in Anzaldua’s experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenge how we think about identity. Borderelands remaps our understanding of what a “border” is, presenting it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but as a psychic, social, and cultural terrain that we inhabit, and that inhabits all of us.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
The Art of Being Many - A position paper
Paper setting out new forms of audience participation in political and ethical terms.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Kids (P3091).
In misc folder 6.
Integration Impossible?: The Politics of Migration in the Artwork of Tanja Ostojic
Artist book published as a follow up to the eponymous exhibition; the book presents around 20 art projects realised between 2000 and 2008.
Kunstpavilion Innsbruck, 19 September – 8 November 2008.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
